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1 Corinthians 13
1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don`t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don`t have love, I am nothing.
3If I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don`t have love, it profits me nothing.
4Love is patient and is kind; love doesn`t envy. Love doesn`t brag, is not proud,
5doesn`t behave itself inappropriately, doesn`t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6doesn`t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
13But now remain faith, hope, and love: these three. The greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 shows that God’s power is for love, not spectacle—today, not someday.
In 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, God meets us through word and sacrament with steady, sustaining mercy.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 exposes vague spirituality; only Christ saves—today, not someday.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 encourages the long obedience of prayer, fasting, and mercy—today, not someday.
1 Corinthians 13: In Spirit-led life, it doesn’t flatter us—stirs hunger for God’s presence and empowered ministry.
If 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 reminds the Church: God’s Word forms God’s people through worship, holiness, and mission.
1 Corinthians 13: In Spirit-led life, it meets us gently—stirs hunger for God’s presence and empowered ministry.
1 Corinthians 13: In Spirit-led life, it stirs hunger for God’s presence and empowered ministry.
1 Corinthians 13: From the struggle for freedom, it proclaims hope, dignity, and God’s liberating justice.
1 Corinthians 13: Through the margins, it meets us gently—demands a faith that repairs harm and includes the excluded.
1 Corinthians 13: In God’s mission, it meets us gently—sends the Church to embody the Kingdom in word and deed.
1 Corinthians 13: By the Spirit’s power, it meets us gently—awakens expectation for gifts, healing, and bold witness.
1 Corinthians 13: As Law and Gospel, it doesn’t flatter us—exposes our need and comforts us with Christ’s gift.
If 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 never moves you outward, you may be reading it for information, not transformation.
1 Corinthians 13: By prevenient grace, it meets us gently—invites a real response that grows into holy love.
1 Corinthians 13: Through the margins, it doesn’t flatter us—demands a faith that repairs harm and includes the excluded.
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